"My parents were both born in Virginia,..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
More by Abraham Lincoln
“You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.”
“I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.”
“There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.”
More on Family
“One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.”
“Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.”
“A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.”